Word: ward
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Just inside the entrance to ward E-3 a patient in her early thirties sits on the floor most of the day with her face buried in her hands, rocking back and forth and moaning; another woman looks blankly into space and pats her on the shoulder. In the center of the room, women in shabby dresses walk up and down, waving their arms. One of them stands and shifts her weight slowly from foot to foot. Other women just sit quietly and stare at the walls...
Kahn argues that the present United States defense posture hardly suffices to ward off the very thing it wants desparately to prevent: an agonizing choice between suicide and surrender...
Fortunately, however, the University still contains a small minority dedicated to the 'rag'--the student practical joke. In the past six years, 'raggers' have tethered a goat on Merton Chapel roof, driven an Austin down a Botany Department corridor, rolled a barrel into a graduate student maternity ward at 2 a.m. (the authorities gave the culprit a second chance and he was expelled a year later for setting fire to a dean's mattress), shot and barbecued a member of the Magdalen College deer-park, and painted new pedestrian crosswalks in improbable places at the dead of night. Shortly after...
...States has become a world commuter, weaving an irregular 300,000 mile pattern from Washington, to any place in world and back to Harvard to teach his seminar. This desire to work with his clients has soured him on those things which block direct contact: the impersonal attitude to-ward business, "mimeograph machine public relations men" and the United States Information Service. "Public relations must be used as a catalyst to mix people and facts. Our first objective when working with a client is to help the client reach the point where our services are no longer needed...
After the Nazis had been taken away, Rep. Julius Ansel of the 14th Ward spoke to the crowd over the police public address system. Having marched all afternoon as "a representative and a private citizen," Ansel declared "We have won a victory for decency and freedom...